611 pages
English language
Published May 6, 2014
In Italy, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is drawn into a world centered on one of history's most mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
Content warning The Plot
If I had a nickel for every time I consumed media about a virus which makes part of the human population sterile to save the world, I'd have two nickels. Watch the show Utopia. It's on Amazon Prime. Don't watch the third season because it's a bad reboot.
I listened to the audiobook. It was pretty good, considering I was listening to it and not reading it. Langdon gets on my nerves with every single book, though. Not liking how repetitive some scenes seems with other books in this series. However, I really like the topic of this one. I was immediately reminded of the Mass Effect franchise.
Inferno mostly reads like a tour guide through Italy and Turkey. So much of the book was about particular historical or geographical fact that eventually the story became extremely thin. While it may have been very well researched in fact the fact wasn't very well integrated into the plot beyond "Robert Langdon is here now where blah blah blah happened years ago or here's some information about the nearest landmark."
Definite improvement from his previous work.
The historicity and thrilling nature of the book makes this a fun read. Probably less believable than his others, especially in the denouement, but it has some surprising twists and turns that compensate. Fans of his work will enjoy this.
